@vipo yeah, that's my point. If lots of players are doing it, why not just get the game itself to take care of it instead. It's like the mem_hack that lots of players are doing. The devs expressed interest in doing it on the server-side, to save Memory parsing if the player doesn't need it. Perhaps they should express interest in doing this too, and following through.

When PowerCreeps were first released, there was a lot of code duplication between PCs and Creeps, particularly the movement piece. This makes it more difficult for players to deal with certain things, including their own homebrew movement code. Is there any intent to refactor all of the movement code into a "Movable" object type, and make Creeps and PowerCreeps extensions of that? I know that @WarInternal has made a patch that does just that, but it's inefficient for players to do that, when it would be better for the game itself to do it.

In particular, I'd like to hear from the devs whether that was brainstormed and discarded (and why), or if it simply never came up in the decision making.

Hey, just wanted to let you know, the docs are open source, and you can make a PR to this specific page here... https://github.com/screeps/docs/blob/master/api/source/ConstructionSite.md

var is either module scoped, if declared outside of a function, or function root scoped, regardless of where it is declared inside the function. const/let have more granular scope, so if it's defined in a loop of if block, it will not exist outside of that scope. the module scope is inaccessible from the console, so you would need to use a global scope. to do that, you'd have to append it to the global object, as in global.SOME_CONST = 5;. at that point, you would be able to access SOME_CONST in the console.

idk if the devs have anything to do with what humble bundle does...

Yeah, xeno and deft are right. Prior to starting the game, the last experience I had was 1 C++ and 2 Java high school classes over a decade prior. I had stayed in IT (netad/sysad) and remembered the concepts, but I started in JS from scratch. Learning the syntax of JS, the game's API and the concepts involved with the game all at the same time was a daunting, but surmountable task. Not having the knowledge of what a for loop, functions, etc was prior, would have crushed me and I never would have gotten off the ground.

heh, if you want to talk about toxic, Vas was the toxic one. This community is awesome, and full of people willing to help. He caused a lot of issues due to his attitude and general trolling. Of course he is going to complain about a community that doesnt put up with his BS... after he got banned in slack (due to recommending physical violence as a legitimate solution to political issues), he proceeded to create multiple additional accounts to continue being a nuisance. I ended up banning 3-4 alt accounts by the time it was finally said and done. Do not accept any opinions from someone like that... That being said, I am part of the slack's moderator staff. if you do see any issues, please feel free to hit me up and we'll take care of it.

yeah, literally the only advantage to running the legacy VM is to not worry about heap size.

agreed. that isnt consistent with the pre-existing API...

@artch, i fully agree with @Hernanduer when he said "Permanent loss in a game like this is ridiculous," when specifically referring to losing a power level. And to answer you, the games that I've seen that let you respecialize a character do have a cost, but the cost is never a skill point itself... Looks at Mind Wipe Tonic in Ark for an example in a "persistent online game" and Token of Absolution in Diablo II in general... Both of those were wildly successful games and they did have a cost to respec, but neither cost skill points themselves. To draw a parallel, you should make deleting a power creep cost a boatload of Ghodium or any T3 boost. We're not saying a respec shouldnt have a cost, we're saying the cost shouldn't be a power level...

Edit: another comparison: losing a GPL for deleting a power creep would be the equivalent of downgrading someone's GCL for respawning... Both are a horrible idea, and would upset players.